Youth Mobilization in Vichy Indochina and Its Legacies, 1940 to 1970 (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)

Youth Mobilization in Vichy Indochina and Its Legacies analyzes the causes and consequences of state-sponsored patriotic youth associations during World War II in French Indochina. Providing an historical account of the transnational policy process of youth mobilization during World War II, this book explores how officials transplanted French doctrines to Indochina with sensitivity toward the varying local political contexts and cultural traditions the French believed they had found there.